Obsessing about it for weeks now, I was determined to come up with the best dang recipe for cassoulet. And then… make it. In my search I came across a straight-forward cassoulet recipe that had been posted by The Amateur Gourmet which looked very good. In it he follows a Daniel Boulud cookbook recipe (minus some rendered fat). From his description and [...]

All of my cassoulet meditation recently provoked me to the point of tracking down pigs feet and making Fergus Henderson’s Trotter Gear. Then, with a fridge full of the porcine pedal goo, I figured the only logical thing to do would be to put some of it to use and make the cassoulet that had [...]